Software Fail Moment of the Day

[nonelvis]

Brought to you by Adobe Acrobat Connect. This is what happens if you're trying to share your screen and then see what other people are viewing. I wouldn't even have tried this if it weren't for the fact that the damned software makes it impossible to tell what you're actually sharing with the presentation viewers, thus leading you to believe that sharing isn't working at all.

Apparently this is expected behavior. Sure looks like fail to me.

Comments

[otherwise-nyc.livejournal.com]

From the *moderator*: "If you only have one monitor and you preview your screen share in the meeting room you will get a recursion of a the meeting room within the meeting room within the meeting room within the meeting room, etc."

Wow. That must be some tasty Kool-Aid they sure over at Adobe, to make someone willing to type that sentence without gagging. Duh, you'll get a recursion if you ONLY have one monitor, you incompetent luser!

[nonelvis]

If Adobe had just called this beta software, I'd be much less willing to mock it. Because this is not the most stupid of its behaviors; it's just the most obviously stupid one.

And yet, based on the forum responses, people are somehow managing to use the software successfully. On the other hand, people use Windows successfully every day, but that doesn't mean it's good software, either.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

OOOOH awesome. Infinity covers (http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x161/infobroker/infiniteDrStrange.jpg) are one of comicbook collecting's holy grails.

[nonelvis]

Ha! Excellent cover.

[platypus]

But it looks cool!

Sorry, I'm just having that kind of day.

[nonelvis]

The screencap I have that includes my iChat window is even cooler-looking. Maybe I'll email it to you for further amusement.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

::is motion sick::

[nonelvis]

Contact Adobe tech support for your free sample of Dramamine.

Simple

[artgrizzle.livejournal.com]

There's an icon at the bottom of the screen. It looks like eyeglasses. It's off by default. If you click on it (as you did), it starts the "recursive screen sharing". If you leave it unclicked (or actively un-click it in your case), the recursive sharing will stop.

-E

Re: Simple

[nonelvis]

Right ... the question is why the recursiveness is there in the first place. Surely the software is smart enough to detect whether the user has one monitor instead of multiple ones, and should be able to activate the eyeglass icon accordingly.

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

Beautifully symmetric fail, though. *icon for great justice*

[nonelvis]

Ha! Yes, perfect icon there.